Me: Second chap!

Cross: Once again, they can read and are fully aware of that

Me: Rude

Cross: I'm not rude, I'm Cross :)

Me: -sigh- really? Are you that childish?

Cross: You created me

Me: I guess you are then

Cross: She only owns me but I beg to differ

Me: Oh?

Cross: Mhm! I'm not an object that can be owned

Me: Well do you want to be with someone else?

Cross: Can I?

Me: You can but…then that means you won't be with Brian as much

Cross: NO!

Me: Young love, they've only known each other for a few days and are already inseparable

Cross: On with the story! ENJOY! This story is going to focus on a new character of ours

Me: Hey that's my-


Saturday. A day where you can relax. But for some, it's just another day at hard work.

"Oof!" Books fell and scattered on the floor as a frantic AnnaLisa hurriedly tried to pick them up. She was sorting the books at the library she volunteers at and at the same time gets paid.

"Here," she looked up to see a girl with big brown eyes handing her one of the fallen books and she took it with hesitation.

"T-Thank you very much," and they proceeded to pick up the rest.

"Phew, you sure got a lot of books. Do you work here?"

"Um no I don't, I just volunteer," AnnaLisa replied.

"That's cool! I mean, at least you're doing something with your life. Me on the other hand, I just sit at my place and probably sleep," she held out her hand for AnnaLisa to shake, "I'm Cross, and you?"

"AnnaLisa," she smiled and shook her hand.

"Well I'll see you at school!" Cross waved and left the library.

'She goes to my school? I never realized,' AnnaLisa thought as she finished her sorting.

It got close to closing time so the head librarian let me go early. Hm, it's only four-thirty so maybe I'll go to the park. It wasn't far to get there, only a few block away but I didn't mind.

It was nice and quiet here, so I pulled out a book and started digging my bookworm self into it. Things were good until a fight broke out a few feet away. I went after the group of people and squeezed by the cheering on lookers. I could only see purple and black on one side and black, silver and red on the other. I adjusted my glasses and could finally make out who was opposing who. There was Cross and a guy whom I've never met before. A boy, presumably who was going to judge, went to each of them and whispered something. He brought them to a nearby arena with the crowd, including me, right behind them.

"Alright!" The boy said, "this battle is going to be a three-on-three between Cross and Kain!" Hm…Kain is it? He seems strong, but then again, I've never seen Cross battle before. Well the match is going to begin.

~Battle music! (No P.O.V.)~

"Go Shadow!" Kain released his Dusknoir.

"Come on Vap!" And Cross released her Vaporeon.

The two were pumped and ready for battle.

"Vap Ice Beam," Cross ordered as her Vaporeon launched the attack.

"Break it with Fire Punch!" Dusknoir melted the Ice Beam and punched the water type. It didn't do match damage and Vaporeon was up in a flash.

"Send a Shadow Ball!" Kain said and ball made up of pure darkness and shadows flew across the field with great speed.

"Push it back with a blast of Hydro Pump!" Vaporeon did as it was ordered to and sent the Shadow Ball back hitting Dusknoir along with a bit of Hydro Pump.

"No!" Kain shouted, as it seemed that Vaporeon had 'melted' into the Hydro Pump and attacked Dusknoir with a powerful Bite, causing to faint right on the spot.

"Return Shadow, you did well," he returned his Pokeball and pulled out another one, "go Jade," and out came a Gardevoir.

Cross returned her Vaporeon, "thank you very much, now it's your turn, go Puff!"

"Jiggly!" It's big eyes wavered around for a bit before it puffed itself up, signalling that it was ready for battle.

"Jade use Magical Leaf!" Gardevoir lifted its arms and out came a bunch of glowing green leaves. Puff twirled to the left and easily dodged them.

"Jade Psychic!" A blue light surrounded the leaves and made their way to Jigglypuff. It was an unexpected move for Jigglypuff and suffered a great deal of damage.

"Now finish with Psychic!" The Jigglypuff was thrown hard against a nearby tree and fainted. Cross collected her Jigglypuff, "thank you Puff, for all that you've done. Now let's finish this Butter!"

"Free!" Her Butterfree squealed.

"It's time to beat this guy, ready?"

"Free!"

"Alright then, Silver Wind!" A beautiful yet strong wind that sparkled like silver was headed straight for Gardevoir.

"Jade! Use-!" But was caught off when Butterfree had launched a quick and successful Aerial Ace sending Gardevoir backwards. It struggled to stand but got knocked out with Silver Wind.

Kain returned his Gardevoir and sent out his last Pokemon, "Go Napalm!" he sent out his Magmortar.

Cross may be able to win at type disadvantages, but this was one she knew she couldn't beat. "I forfeit the match," she said to the judge. She called back her Butterfree and went to confront Kain, "thank you for the match," they shook hands and she left. The crowd was disappointed that the battle didn't finish, some had even said that Cross was a weakling. Although the word 'weak' enraged her, she knew that picking a fight was something she didn't feel like doing at the moment. She was headed on her way to the Pokemon Centre until she bumped into AnnaLisa.

"Ow..I'm so sorry AnnaLisa," Cross said apologetically.

"Cross that was amazing!"

"Really? I didn't think falling down was that cool," Cross told her.

AnnaLisa simply shook her head, "I meant about the fight! You're Pokemon were so graceful when that all happened are you a coordinator?"

Memories flooded back to Cross' mind, "nope sorry, I'm a battler."

"Oh," AnnaLisa said sadly.

"But if you want contest pointers and those things I guess I can help you.

"Thank you so much!" She exclaimed.

"How about tomorrow?"

"Okay! But after four because that's when my volunteering is done at."

"That's fine! I'll meet you at the library tomorrow at four-thirty so be prepared."

They went their separated ways with AnnaLisa feeling like she just had just found a great friend.


Me: Pant, pant!

Cross: Tired?

Me: Not really, just forming up- er I mean, thinking of ways to get you and Bri together. In and out of the story

Cross: ...

Me: You blush too much, you're going to end up like a tomato or something one day

Cross: I can't help it!

Me: Anyways, review if you'd like and please don't flame/flag

Cross: They hurt our self-esteem

Me: So thank you for reading this chapter!

Cross: Bye bye!